Word: tammanyizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a saying in New York State that Governor Smith was four times elected by the stupidity of his opponents. Loudest of his opponents was Theodore Roosevelt the younger. Last week, notwithstanding Chairman Work's announcement that the Hoover campaign would not indulge in personal attacks, Theodore Roosevelt...
Thomas B. Love, a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Texas, who said: "As between chronic corruption and acute corruption, I prefer the acute. I want strongly to turn the rascals out, but I am just as strongly opposed to turning Tammany Hall in. I intend definitely to vote against Smith...
Speech. Just prior to moving from its oldtime site downtown to a temporary site at 2 Park Avenue (directly opposite the Prohibition Administrator's headquarters), Tammany Hall heard an address from its most distinguished son. The country heard it, too. The son was quite brazen about it and said...
Around Mrs. Smith in her box at Sam Houston Hall, at various times, sat: Mrs. John G. Glynn of Brooklyn, her comfortable-looking sister-in-law; Alfred E. Smith Jr., her slim, blond, curly, eldest son, a lawyer; Mrs. Catherine Smith Quillinan, her newly wed younger daughter; Arthur Smith, her...
That afternoon, before breakfasting, Nominee Smith issued copies of his message to the convention (see p. 10). He read the crucial sentences aloud, emphatically. Until evening he dictated answers to congratulations, then went to play with his year-old granddaughter, Mary Adams Warner. His first speech was to be at...